Nymphaea alba (common names: Nenufar Blanco)

Lovely water lily....

Flower looks like its made from WAX? Real Pretty

Wonderful. I love water lilies and these leaves are almost silver. Nice flower. I envy you, as my water lilies are dead or dormant, but nothing in the pot to show for!

Very Beautiful~ It makes me miss my pond I had when I lived in California. Do you keep fish?

Wow! Superb photograph.

Reflection to perfection, so good this one.

Nice closeup!

Very special photo. I can see a merenge dessert in it, it looks really yummy.

Thanks everyone ! Earthsteward, no I don't think I've seen the kind you're talking about.
Eckie, a torii (with two i's on the end) is a Japanese structure, usually red and usually in water as far as I know, and is the entranceway to a shrine. I visited a shrine on a small Japanese island once when I lived over there, and was in awe of the huge red torii. That was my first encounter with Japanese Koi also, and I told myself then that one day I would have a Koi pond with a red torii. I consider it the entranceway to my shrine (woodland garden and koi pond).

If you 'Google' Japanese torii Miajima' you should be able to see the one I saw in person.

What is a Tori? my husband could make me one too over my Pond.

WOW i truly love this well done!!!

Lovely :)

I absolutely love your Torii. Have you seen other forms of this, such as the v-shaped ones over a Christ or Mary Statute?

Fantastic!! They close their flowers in the afternoon, aren't they?

Spectacular !

Iv a Red Water Lilly i put in2my pond last year cant wait4it 2 flower:D

I've got 3 plants, 2 in bigger pond and 1 in small one.

Yes very nice. How many nymphaea do you have?

GREAT photo Chris :)

Wow... what a beautiful bloom ! Wish I could get water lilies to bloom, my pond is in too much shade. Great close-up shot.

So nice. I live those !

Fantastic. A BLOOMING good year

beautiful chris

Wow That Water Lily Flower Is Gorgeous :O My Lily has only 1 flower &still coming2the ponds Surface ! it should be Red when it opens :)

Pure perfection :-)

Thnks for all your kind words. I think we gardeners like it when the wildlife gets in our pics even if it is only a snail. Of course this was unintentional, I did not see the snail till I looked at the picture on the computer.

Lovely! Enen the snail...

The snails seem to leave the lilies alone. They may eat other plants. I had a water lettuce which got eaten. They may also have eaten the water buttercups that we had, unless these only have a short season. I'm not sure. We have thousands of snails, they just appear. We also have very interesting noisy frogs that laugh or quack like a duck. They must be peculiar to this part of the world.

Fantastic Pic Chris :) Dont the Horned Water Snail eat your Pond Plants?

Lovely

Perfect

great picture

Sorry I don't know the name. They are not hot on plant names in Hungary. This lily is quite pink when it first comes out and fades to almost white.

A beautiful pic, is it pink? Do you know the variety? I have pink, white, yellow and salmon. The only one I know the name of is the yellow one, it is a Denver variety. My friends give me their castoffs when they split them. I have only bought one, which is the Denver. I have a large pond with about 20 plants, I still have a lot of open space. Yesterday, I had 17 blooms, it's the first thing I check on in the morning.

Heavenly.

very pretty

Ditto that - and I like the shadows falling across the leaves too...

Yes,fantastic... got to agree with everyone else..and the lighting and shadows in this pic are amazing.

Beautiful!
Amazing light effect on it. Looks like a painting.

Wonderful range of colors in this photo Chris!

fantastic pic chris, i love it

They were open earlier but they start to close when the sun is getting lower in the sky.

pleeese post another pic when they open up

wow, wow and wow chrispooks thats brilliant

Stunning Pic Chris :)

Great shot Chris. Which camera are you using? This one came out very nicely.

Just lovely!

These make a perfect picture!

It is so delicate..............I love your comments Chris

Stunning Water lily Chris :O

beautiful

nice one

So beautiful!

this is lovely, I can remember when we had morning sun, I think it was one day in early may!